Píle

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - píle

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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píle
f. A mortar :-- Ðeáh ðú portige ðone dysegan on pílan swá mon corn déþ mid piilstæfe ne meaht ðú his dysig him from ádrífan si contuderis stultum in pila, quasi plisanas feriente desuper pilo, non auferetur ab eo stultitia ejus, Past. 37, 2; Swt. 267, 1. Swilce hit on pílan gepílod wǽre quasi pilo tusum, Ex. 16,14. [From Latin pila.] pile
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